Occultism and Spiritualism

...to be added to the previous forces. The limbs, which were resting, stir; the face comes alive and the eyes open; the human being who was lying down stands up and speaks. A new life is about to begin, while organic life will continue its action mechanically.

The principle that has just appeared differs essentially from the preceding principles: it has its own particular organs of action in the body (striated-fiber organs); it has a special nervous system; it uses the body as a workman uses a tool, or as an engineer uses a locomotive; it governs all its centers and all its peripheral organs which were at rest a moment ago. This principle we call the Conscious Spirit.

If we summarize the preceding account, we find three principles in man: that which supports everything is the physical body; that which animates and that which moves everything, forming the two poles of a single principle, is the soul; finally, that which governs the entire being is the spirit.

The physical body, the soul or doubly polarized plastic mediator, and the conscious spirit—such are the three general principles constituting the human being.

If one observes that the plastic mediator is twofold, it can be said that man is composed of three organic principles: that which supports, that which animates, and that which moves—the body, the astral body, and the psychic being, synthesized and brought back to unity of action by a conscious principle: that which governs, the spirit.

This is an example of what is called trinity in unity, or tri-unity, in occultism.

After physiology, it is necessary to appeal to anatomy to clearly demonstrate the positive basis that the occul-